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Ntra STATES PATENT JOHN D. PERRY, OF NAPERVILLE, ILLlNOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T() JASPER L. DILLE,

0F SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,512, dated October 24, 1882,

Application tiled July 31, 1882.

T o all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN I). PERRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Naperville, in the county of Du Page and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings, and l do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact desciiption of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same7 reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which forin a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to improvements in car-couplings.

It consists essentially in the construction and arrangement of the rods for operating the coupling-pin and lilik operating the hook, as will be hereinafter fully described,and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings,Figure lis a front, and Fig. 2 is a side, view of a car having my improvements attached thereto; and Figs. 3 and tare cross and horizontal sections of the draw-head.

A represents the car.

B represents the draw-head. Itis provided with an opening to admit the link, and with the usual opening to permit the coupling-pin, hereinafter described, to drop through and secure the link.

a a represent holes cut through the drawhead in advance of the pin-opening and arranged on either side of the link-opening, as shown in Figs. 3 and d.

b represents the hook for raising the link. It is formed of a single piece of metal, with its side arms rested and sliding in the openings a a and in grooves formed in the inner walls of the draw-head, and its base rests, when in normal position, in agroove, a', formed in the bottom of the draw-head, and below the surface of same, as shown in Fig.3. This hook is used to raise the link when it is desired to couple with a car havinga higher draw-head.

b represents the coupling-pin.

For convenience of reference I denominate the side of the car marked :c the right side and the opposite side the left side.

c represents the rod for raising the coupling- (No model.)

pin. It is composed of Athe shaft c', the bar c2, and thelevers or handles 0304, formed of a single bar or rod of metal, as shown. rIhe bar c2 is twisted from the shaftc,and extends outward at right angles therefrom over the couplingpin b', to which it is connected by achain-link, as shown. rlhe shaft is journaled on the front of the car in staples el d, so that it may readily be turned to operate the pin. The bar c4l is carried back on the left side of the car and bent downward and then carried up above the top of the car, and its upper end is held within the keeperl c. The bend in this lever increases the distance to which the pin-raising bar c2 may be raised by the movement of the lever. rlhe leverc3 is carried back on the right side of the car and bent down in position to be operated by a person standing on the ground.

f represents the rod for raising the lilik-elevating hook. It is composed ot' the shaftf, the bar f2, and the levers or handles f3 f4, formed, as is bar c, of a single baror rod ot' metal, as shown. Thebar f2 is twisted from the shaftj", and extends outward at right angies over the hook b,and is connected thereto by a chain-link, as shown. This bar is longer than the bar c2. rIhe shaft f is ]'ournaled on the front of the ear, below the shaft c', in staples d d. The leverj'3 is bent back from the shaftf along' the right side of the car, and is then carried up through the keeper c above the top of the car. The lever f4 is bent back from the shaftf along the left side ofthe car and down within reach of a person standing on the ground. Thus it will be seen that by le- 'vers c3 c4 the hook b and pin b may be operated by a person standing on the ground, and that they may be operated from the top of the car by leversfj, as may be desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

The combination, with the car-body A, the draw-headB,provided with the vertical grooves or channels a, formed on opposite sides ofthe mouth thereof, and the pin b', of the stirrup b, placed in the channels a and having the ends ot' its side arms projected above the drawhead, the rod c, extended from side to side across the end of the ear A, and having one end bent downward and its opposite end bent upward to the top 01 the ear, and having` an arm, e2, extended forward over and coupled to the 5 pin b', and the rod f, extended from side to side across the end of the car-body, and having one ol' its ends bent to the top of the ear and its other end bent downward, and having a central arm, f2, extended forward over and couo pled to one of the upwardly-projected ends ot' the stirrnp b, the bent ends of the rods c and fbeing arranged so that on any given side of the ear the end of one rod will extend to the top of the car and the end of the other rod will extend downward within reaoh'of the opf5 erator, substantially as shown and setforth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

1li JOHN XS D. PERRY.

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Witnesses:

S. E. SHIMP, S. S. STRAYER. l* 

